Speaker

Doug Cutting

Keynote Speaker

Doug is a founder of several Apache open source projects, including Lucene, Nutch, Hadoop and Avro. Doug currently works for Cloudera, and previously worked at Yahoo!, Apple, Excite and Xerox PARC. Doug holds a Bachelor’s degree from Stanford University and currently chairs the Board of the Apache Software Foundation.

Dawid Weiss

Dawid Weiss shares academic and industrial background: he is an associate professor at the Institute of Computing Science of Poznan University of Technology in Poland (PhD in Information Retrieval) and co-owns Carrot Search, a company that provides commercial services revolving around text processing, text mining and text clustering. In his spare time Dawid contributes to several open source projects, including Carrot2.org, reads books and passionately plays basketball with a bunch of his old friends. He lives in Poznan, Poland with his wife and two children.

Jonathan Gray

Jonathan Gray is a long-time Apache HBase committer and user of Apache Hadoop and other open source projects. As a software engineer and open source advocate at Facebook, Jonathan works across product teams on data infrastructure and the usage, contribution, and release of open source software.

Ted Dunning

Keynote Speaker

Ted Dunning is the Chief Application Architect at MapR Technologies. Prior to MapR, he was Senior Technology Advisor at DeepDyve, chief architect behind the MusicMatch, (now Yahoo Music) management and recommendation system. Ted is actively contributing to several Apache open source projects, including Hadoop and Mahout.

Uwe Schindler

Uwe is committer and PMC member of Apache Lucene and Solr. His main focus is on development of Lucene Java. He implemented fast numerical search and is maintaining the new attribute-based text analysis API. He studied Physics at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and works as managing director for SD DataSolutions GmbH in Bremen, Germany, a company that provides consulting and support for Apache Lucene and Solr.

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Christoph Goller

Christoph Goller has more than 10 years of experience in the search industry. He got a Ph.D in computer science from the Technical University of Munich where he worked in several research projects on artificial intelligence, machine learning and neural networks. Christoph started his career at Lernout & Hauspie. Since 2002 he is Director Research of Intrafind Software AG (www.intrafind.de), a German company specialized on full-text search and text mining based on Lucene and Solr. Christoph is Lucene committer since 2004.

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Chris Wensel

Chris K Wensel is the founder of Concurrent, Inc., and the author of the Cascading data processing open-source project, an alternative API to MapReduce for Apache Hadoop.

He also co-founded Scale Unlimited, the first Hadoop and "Big Data" related professional services and training company, where he mentored and trained companies like Sun Microsystems, Apple, and numerous startups in the Bay Area.

Chris bootstrapped his first Internet startup in the early 90's, creating an early Web server-side scripting language used in the real estate and insurance verticals.

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Nuno Job

Nuno Job works for MarkLogic, a Silicon Valley startup where he helps shape the future of database systems.

Before MarkLogic Nuno worked in New York at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in the DB2 pureXML team. He also worked in IBM Toronto where he had a broader role in the DB2 organization.

Database geek. Evangelist. Consultant. Lecturer. Nuno loves open-source technology – most of all being in the edge, and looking for innovative ways to solve problems.

Random facts: Likes photography, dinosaurs, and funny hats. And people that put commas before and.

Felix Geisendörfer

Felix Geisendörfer has been an early contributor to node.js, and has experienced it's strength and shortcomings first-hand while building transloadit.com. When not event-looping, he loves unicycling and watching squirrels.

Jakob Homan

Engineer with the SNA team at LinkedIn working on Apache Hadoop, Project Voldemort and Kafka. Apache Hadoop Committer and PMC member. While at Yahoo!, member of five person team that added end-to-end security to Apache Hadoop.

Berlin Buzzwords 2011 is a conference for developers and users of open source software projects, focussing on the issues of scalable search, data-analysis in the cloud and NoSQL-databases. Berlin Buzzwords presents more than 30 talks and presentations of international speakers specific to the three tags "search", "store" and "scale".